On 02/09/2014 03:22, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
Once you've cracked the leather the fibres are all torn and nothing is
going to fix that. There is no cure in a bottle.
Perhaps that's incorrect and unhelpful, but tough.

The same could be said of anything that is broken or split, yet there
are adhesives, glues and filler compounds that work.

You may be right that a perfect cure is unlikely, but it seems
reasonable to me that a fix may be possible, albeit not necessarily
elegant or invisible. Currently trialling Shoe Goo which is (allegedly)
both a glue and a filler.